News

October 28, 2003 20:20

• Civil society leaders criticize pre-election situation in Ajaria

  Yesterday, October 27, Georgian NGO representatives expressed their protest regarding the situation arisen in the Ajarian Autonomous Republic on the eve of the Georgian parliamentary elections scheduled for November 2.

October 28, 2003 16:16

• Rauf Arifoglu, opposition Musavat party deputy head, has been arrested

  The authorities consider him to be one of the organizers of the disorders in Baku that broke out just after the presidential elections of October 15.

October 28, 2003 16:14

• Akhmad Kadyrov is prepared to create agency for cooperation with human rights organizations

  He told it upon his return from Geneva, where he had attended the 79th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.

October 28, 2003 13:48

• In memory of victims of "Nord-Ost": mourning meeting in Saint Petersburg

  Human rights activists of the Memorial society, activists of the Saint Petersburg League of Anarchists and other members of the antiwar movement gave their speeches during the meeting.

October 28, 2003 11:22

• Congress of Osetian people: North and South are together again

  The 5th congress of the Osetian people opened in Vladikavkaz on October 25. The organizer of it is the well-known public organization "Alanty Nikhas".

October 28, 2003 11:19

• International Conference "National Cultures in Modern World" took place in Abkhazia

  The International Scientific Conference "National Cultures in Modern World" was held at the Abkhazian Institute of Humanitarian Studies on October 22-24.

October 27, 2003 19:58

• Attempt on criminal department head of Achkhoy-Martan

  Bauddi Merjoev has a bad character in the Achkhoy-Martan district: district residents suspect that officers of the structure that is under command of Merjoev conduct illegal and ungrounded detentions and abductions of people, along with officers of Russian law-enforcement structures.

October 27, 2003 18:10

• European Court on Human Rights adjourned fact-finding visits of its representatives to Georgia and Russia in the case of detained Chechens

  The fact-finding mission of the European Court on Human Rights is now scheduled to take place in Georgia and Russia at the beginning of 2004.

October 27, 2003 16:58

• Georgian police officers detained head of "Fair Elections" non-government organization

  Chiaberashvili, who was released later, told he had gone in a taxi and had witnessed his driver's bribing a road police officer.

October 27, 2003 16:55

• Jaap de Hoop Scheffer: "The Council of Europe, the European Union and the OSCE want the problem of Nagorny Karabakh to be solved"

  The OSCE Chairman-in-Office announced that, during his short visit to Armenia, he had a thorough talk with the president of the county and the foreign minister, had effective meetings with a number of public organizations.

October 27, 2003 16:53

• Abducted Chechens will be searched for in Russian prisons

  Information about a thousand of missing Chechens is to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice and send to regional human rights organizations this week.

October 27, 2003 14:55

• Explosion at opposition MP candidate's house

  Reports of Georgian media say a blast occurred in the backyard of the house of David Mumladze in Georgia's Zestaponi district this morning. Mr. Mumladze is a candidate MP for the United National Movement opposition election bloc.

October 27, 2003 14:13

• Azerbaijan president Ilkham Aliyev does not exclude chance of using force for Karabakh conflict settlement

  According to Mr. Aliyev, the failure of the OSCE peacemaking mission in Nagorny Karabakh means that the time has come to settle the problem of this region independently by applying variants that presume the use of force.

October 27, 2003 12:54

• Opposition bloc leader was brutally beaten

  David Berdzenishvili, one of the leaders of "Saakashvili ? National Movement" bloc, chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia and MP candidate for Batumi, was brutally beaten by supporters of Aslan Abashidze, president of the Ajarian Republic.

October 27, 2003 12:05

• Attack on Arman Saakian's election staff

  An attack on Arman Saakian's election headquarters was made on the night of October 23. The attacker savagely beat the headquarters staff.

October 27, 2003 11:15

• Statement of International Society "Memorial" about arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  The statement reads, "We are deeply indignant at the demonstrative detention of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, YUKOS Company president, made in Novosibirsk by instructions of the prosecutor general's office."

October 25, 2003 20:06

• Conference "Institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Subjects of Russia's South"

  The international conference "Institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Subjects of Russia's South: Problems of Making, Experience of Interaction with Public Authorities, and Prospects of Development" was held in Astrakhan on October 16-17.

October 25, 2003 18:58

• Raid on editorial office of Milliet newspaper

  Though the authorities assure they are seeking after normalization of relations with all the mass media, regardless of their political orientation, pressure on opposition periodicals still goes on.

October 25, 2003 18:57

• Antiwar meeting in Saint Petersburg

  An antiwar meeting devoted to the anniversary of tragic events in the Moscow theatre center on Dubrovka is to be held on Sunday, October 26, at Troitskaya Square of Saint Petersburg.

October 25, 2003 18:55

• Press conference on problems of missing residents of Chechnya

  The press conference "The Abducted and Forgotten: What Should Relatives of More Than Two Thousand Missing Chechens Do?" is to take place at the Independent Press Center (former press center of the Institute of Press Development) on October 28, 2003.